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Re: preferring mercurial
From: |
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso |
Subject: |
Re: preferring mercurial |
Date: |
Fri, 10 Jan 2014 11:09:17 -0500 |
On Fri, 2014-01-10 at 10:55 -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden>:
> > On Fri, 2014-01-10 at 09:08 -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> >
> > > Furthermore, the Mercurial fans bitching about this seem to forget
> > > that in the original post where I pushed for the change to git that
> > > *I prefer Mercurial myself*. Yet I use git
> >
> > Not much of a preference, then. Why not help us improve hg-git or
> > advocate for Kiln Harmony to get freed up?
>
> Because I don't believe anything I could do would reverse git's
> runaway-leader status. I'm too busy to bother with futile gestures.
I didn't say you had to do anything about git's popularity. I'm just
wondering why you're putting up with a tool that you don't enjoy
yourself. It's not very hackerly-ethical to put up with tools you
consider bad but you use them just because they're popular. Why not
work on improving the tool you enjoy using?
- Jordi G. H.
- Re: preferring mercurial, (continued)
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- Re: preferring mercurial, Eric S. Raymond, 2014/01/10
- Re: preferring mercurial, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso, 2014/01/10
- Re: preferring mercurial, Eric S. Raymond, 2014/01/10
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